The bureaucratic state begs for resuscitation

This comes from ZeroHedge and an Australian observer. To many people, this is exciting! But to many people in power? They are seriously worried.

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The mission creep of the bureaucrats may finally be coming to an end. Trump’s EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, is expected to announce today [Tuesday, 15 SEP 2026] that they will scrap the limits set for ‘climate pollution’ from US power plants.

Naturally, the Blob Bureaucrats [Deep State; permanent bureaucracy; thugs in polished dress shoes] will oppose this in the courts in every way possible. But there is something much bigger at stake here than just American electricity prices. Somehow desk clerks you didn’t vote for have graduated from checking smokestacks to choosing America’s power stations and redesigning its car fleet and perhaps one day, even banning your burgers. (You know they want to.)

What the Blob is most afraid of here, is that if Trump can repeal these EPA rules, and the courts agree the Clean Air Act never authorized them in the first place, future Presidents won’t be able to bring back the glory days of the EPA (or any of the other jumped-up bureaucratic agencies).  Which all sounds unlikely, you would think, in a democracy, but the real problem is that a legal case could expose that the EPA never held such vast sweeping powers anyway. [Amen and Amen!]

The agency created [in 1972; 54 years ago] to stop arsenic leaking into rivers gradually promoted itself to national electricity planner, vehicle designer, wetlands referee and atmospheric thermostat. Lately the EPA used the Clean Water Act to try to force farmers to ask for permits, in case every soggy paddock might count as a federally protected wetland. The Supreme Court pegged that back. [But several States are still pushing for that power.]

Factors that affect US competitiveness or national security, obviously, are so big they not supposed to be meted out to jumped-up little agencies with delusions of grandeur (especially ones that voters can’t vote out). [Of course, lovers of liberty know there is much more at stake than mere national security.]

The central question is whether the EPA was ever given authority by Congress to transform the US economy and kill industries in order to control the Earth’s climate. (Or in this case, to pretend to).  So, faced with a challenge the Supreme Court may find that Congress is responsible for writing the country’s rules, not the EPA. [Oh dear, oh dear!]

But what a crushing loss for the Kleptocrats — they might not be able to find trillion-dollar powers hidden between the commas of 50-year-old legislation.

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Americans and American businesses (and even local and tribal governments) have been slowly and steadily enslaved by the EPA and its cloned children (and more slaves: overseers) in the Fifty States and the various Territories and “dependent” sovereign nations (the AmerInd tribes).

Now, there is hope that even though the Nine Nazgul (the SCOTUS) are still beholden to the bureaucratic deep state, maybe they will throw out the 54-year-old “baby” with the spiritually and morally polluted bathwater. (Who pays their salaries and maintains their luxuries? The bureaucrats: the administrative state so admired by Woody Wilson, FDR, and generations of greedy, power-mad Republicans and Democrats. Even though they are very good at playing their “good guy/bad guy” roles.

The greatest danger of the collapse of the EPA’s regulatory house of cards? What the bureaucrats will do. Many will go and join other “Grand Old Broads” environists in other government agencies. A situation as bad as having “moderate” Californians escape to Colorado, Texas, and elsewhere, carrying their political contamination with them.

And of course, the State EPAs and DEPs and DEQs and such. Even though they will no longer have to fear that EPA bureaucrats from Denver, Kansas City, Dallas, etc. will show up with hatchets and cut off their hands if they don’t kiss the patent leather shoes (or sandal-exposed big toes) enough. They still have their evil companions: not just the Sierra Club and Greenpeace and all the various federations of tree-huggers and Bambi-worshipers and idiots like that. But the politicians and bureaucrats and judges (and other attorneys) who have enjoyed the EPA gravy train for so long.

So, as with RKBA, lovers of liberty (and people who really understand and love true environmental quality and humans) cannot give up the fight. We must press while the enemies are disrupted and worried.

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Source: https://freedombunker.com/2026/09/16/the-bureaucratic-state-begs-for-resuscitation/